Safaricom has announced plans to enter the home internet market, in partnership with Jamii Telecom. They are planning to connect 100,000 homes to the inland fibre optic cable in order to tap into the largely underpenetrated home internet market. The two intend to invest KES 1.2bn in the connection of households to the inland and undersea fibre optic cable, a move that will be the first in the market as other internet players have tendered to connect to households using landline copper cable, modems and Wi-Max frequencies.

The move will widen Safaricom internet services such as larger capacity, video conferencing and television viewing, services that the mobile telephony firm cannot offer using its current modem platform. Safaricom also has WiMax frequencies—wireless internet—to connect homes, but the limited frequencies has slowed wide scale deployment of wireless data networks.

This will place Safaricom in a head to head battle with Access Kenya for control of the homes internet market that has attracted other internet firms such as Wananchi Online, Telkom Kenya and Swift global.

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I actually asked zain customer care abt their 3g service and they said by the first quater of this year....Its gonna rock ..guyz.If zain are behaving this way w/ their good voice offerings what about data where the real battle is...?????

I actually asked zain customer care abt their 3g service and they said by the first quater of this year....Its gonna rock ..guyz.If zain are behaving this way w/ their good voice offerings what about data where the real battle is...?????

orange with persistence may just win the modems war as long as safaricom continues to be expensive to the mass market

Airtel is the only telco capable of raining on safcon's parade and in the process getting 'em to lower their prices & when they get to launch 3G saf will've to adjust their data prices southwards. BTW safcon 've a one day offer 2morrow, i.e, call unlimited saf2saf by dialling *444#; all this is brought 2 u courtsey of pressure from ur's truly ...

Why are u guyz forgettin Orange is also launching its own 3G. Basically it all boils down to pricing...But if safcom price their 4G really well ( which again will be a 1st ) then the market might just tilt to their side...

Just seen Safcom's new offer on their FB fan page. It's just for today, and it's 50 bob only to make on net calls 'all day.' This is rubbish when you compare with Airtel and Yu's competing offers. I believe Airtel are 2 or 3 clean hits away from landing a knockout punch. Clean hit #1: Cheap 3G data offeringClean hit #2: Any remarkable offer to coincide with number portability in AprilClean hit #3: Unlimited kila kitu for less than 1000bob a month

Orange,yu and airtell are super slow and i really dont think there's another basis of judgement. By that fact alone the two are out. Safaricom is more expensive than access so yeah.......there goes your answer.

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